Tao Wen-lung, secretary-general of Taiwan's International Cooperation Development Fund (ICDF), told participants that the event was organized to promote ICT development in the Caribbean and narrow the digital gap between developing countries in the region and developed nations, according to a statement by Taiwan's Embassy to Saint Lucia.
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These were among the major projects to be carried out by the RDEC for 2010, according to Minister Chu Chin-peng of the Cabinet-level agency.
"Evidence of Taiwan's strong competence in advancing e-government is not fading. There is ongoing development of online government services with enriched Web site content and the widespread promotion of usage of these Web sites, " said Sung Yu-hsieh, deputy minister of the RDEC, at the 2009 Asia-Pacific E-Governance International Conference in Taipei.
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The survey on the public's opinion of e-government services and other related issues showed that 62 percent of respondents knew how to use the computer and 95 percent of computer users made use of the Internet.
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Ma brought up the idea while attending a news conference at the Taipei World Trade Center to mark the inauguration of WiMAX commercial operations earlier this week.
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